Home Cinema Choice

Home Cinema Choice is the UK's best-selling home cinema enthusiasts magazine. Every issue features news and reviews of the latest home cinema equipment, from amplifiers, receivers, processors and power amps, to DVD recorders, speakers, projectors and flat panel TVs. Home Cinema Choice currently publishes 11 issues a year but reserves the right to change the number of issues in an annual term.

Welcome

Fifteen to one

Platinum opus • New from Monitor Audio is a third generation of its flagship Platinum series, featuring centre channel, standmount and two floorstander models. A freshly minted MPD III (Multi-Pleated Diaphragm) tweeter is used across the range, joined by revamped mid and bass drivers. Pricing begins at £3,500 for the C250 3G centre and peaks at £11,500 for the 'formidable' 300 3G floorstander, which features dual 8in woofers. The speakers' curved cabinets are offered in Piano Ebony (pictured), Piano Black, or Pure White Satin.

McIntosh's centre stage • XCS1.5K centre speaker launched to partner flagship line array towers

At the 'plex… • Heading out to see a flick? Catch these this month

Optoma UST line refreshed • CinemaX D2 models add eARC, Atmos support and fast gaming

Sound United goes large • Denon and Marantz AV ranges embrace more channels, plus Dirac

CEDIA dishes '22 Awards • UK installers scoop prestigious gongs in CI industry's annual event

Jamo's budget bundle • New 5.0 package is designed to be affordable – or should that be afjordable?

Press play • Discs spinning your way in the coming month… 

Make mine a mocha

Spade invader...

Audyssey MultEQ-X • Earlier this year the audio calibration company released a software upgrade for its MultEQ platform. Richard Stevenson investigates

Karma

Meet the immer sive audio music man • His name has been synonymous with multichannel music for years, and now Steven Wilson is a prime mover in the Dolby Atmos music revolution. Steve May chats to the prolific, prog-rock producing legend…

Denon

Movie room makeover • Richard Stevenson puts some vital finishing touches to his revamped home cinema, and considers the success – or not – of his project from start to finish

100 YEARS OF THE BBC • Martin Pipe revisits the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation, via technical innovations including colour TV, NICAM stereo, the iPlayer... and Ceefax

Paradigm shift • Daniel Sait checks out a subterranean cinema project with Canadian loudspeakers, Italian projector and French wall panelling

Treat yourself... • 'Tis almost the season to be jolly, which means it's also time to load up on Blu-ray boxsets, movie books and Ray Harryhausen statues. Team HCC goes Christmas shopping

Bravo for Sony's Bravia QD OLED • This Quantum Dot OLED flatscreen is the TV to beat right now, believes John Archer

Welcome to a wireless world • Piega's Ace loudspeaker range has gone active wireless. Steve Withers swaps cables for WiSA

Flagship 'bar is better than ever • For its range-topping 2022 sound system, Samsung has adopted an 'evolution not revolution' approach. John Archer appreciates the new-found sense of refinement

Going for gold • Mark Craven enjoys the highs and lows of a premium compact 5.1 system from American audio marque GoldenEar

Panasonic TX-55LZ1500 • John Archer rates Panasonic’s step-down OLED TV as an unmissable bargain for anyone who already has an immersive sound system

Muscular Fidelity • Mark Craven wrestles this beefy multichannel amplifier into place, and then gets drunk on power

High-impact Hisense • The TV manufacturer makes an impressive splash with this well-featured 4K HDR screen, says Steve...